I was stretching the truth there, or bending the truth.

我在夸大事实，或者说是在歪曲事实。

You're stretching the truth (as well as stretching the length of the fish, of course).

你在夸大事实（当然， 也在夸大鱼的长度）。

" I can imagine him, " Shane says, " stretching the truth now and then" .

“我可以想象他， ” 谢恩说，“时不时地夸大事实” 。

But Crick, you know, he was doing it for profit, which sometimes meant stretching the truth.

西蒙：但是克里克，你知道，他这样做是为了盈利，这有时意味着夸大事实。

I can imagine him stretching the truth now and then, but he's the last person I would think of as being truly dishonest.

我可以想象他时不时地夸大事实，但我认为他是最不诚实的人。

The real question is: How much of what he claimed to see and do was stretching the truth—what we call " tall tales" ?

真正的问题是：他声称看到和做的事情有多少是在夸大事实——我们称之为“荒谬的故事” ？

This was stretching the truth to breaking point; as far as Harry knew, Ron and Dumbledore had never been alone together, and direct contact between them had been negligible.

这似乎并不怎么靠谱，据哈利所知，罗恩和邓布利多从来没有单独相处过，直接接触的情况也可以忽略不计。

Indeed, Jordan says he's been judged on dating apps for being " too young, too old and too fat." Deception can be another issue, with profiles often stretching the truth.

事实上，乔丹说他在约会应用程序上被评价为“太年轻、太老和太胖”。 欺骗可能是另一个问题， 个人资料往往会夸大事实。

You may say that the fish you caught, the fish that you were able to get, was, I don't know, two feet long, but then the next time you tell the story you start stretching the truth.

你可能会说你抓到的鱼，你能得到的鱼， 我不知道，有两英尺长，但是下次你讲这个故事的时候你就开始夸大事实了。